he is joined by his mother. go ahead,. >> hello. [inaudible] mayor lee said he wants the city to be safe, the word means more than one thing. will walk to school, play outside, or go shopping with our parents, but it also means that we should also help people who need food, the doctor, or a place to sleep. the whole city is stronger when we make sure we can all feel safe. today, we are hearing about how we can grow a stronger, healthier, safer san francisco for all our city's families and children. [applause] >> thanks, zack. next, to talk about a solvent city, i would like to invite and

11-year-old just graduated from harvey milk civil rights academy. she will be going into the sixth grade this fall. she likes horseback riding and reading. she will also be going to camps and taking some road trips by bus the summer. she is joined today by her mother. >> i just graduated from harvey milk civil rights academy. i'll be going into sixth grade this year at everett middle school. students at my school work hard every day. we are planning for our future. the same way the mayor is planning for san francisco's future, not just planned for one-half in private -- planning for what happens in five years now, not just today. in five years, i will be in high school. mayor lee is planning for five years down the road, too, to make sure san francisco is what

he calls solvent. it means we will put together [inaudible] [applause] mayor lee: thank you. finally, i would like to invite up to the podium lorenzo tomayo, who just turned 13 this week. he is going into the eighth grade and plans to go to lowell high school. he enjoys playing basketball with his school and with his buddies. he plans to attend camps. he is joined by his father. >> good morning, mayor and board of supervisors. san francisco students should be proud to live, study, and learn in one of the best cities in the

world. when students come to graduate from high school or college, they should be able to stay right here in san francisco. that is what happened. our city has to have jobs for people like me, people who grew up here in san francisco who want to stay here in san francisco. businesses from all over the world want to come here because they know this is where the best workers in the world come to work and live. to be a successful city, it goes beyond just keeping businesses here. san francisco needs to work hard to keep families here and make the city a place where people want to raise their kids. the city has an opportunity to provide a good foundation of quality education, jobs, and programs that strengthen families. even though the whole country is struggling with the economy, our city is working hard and investing in a successful future for all san franciscans. [applause]

>> thank you for helping us and reminding us that we can be a safe, solvent, and successful city while we balance our budget. our city is reflected in being a safe city, and that challenge has been formidable. despite the financial concerns, this budget reflects no layoffs for police officers or firefighters. yet, we will still face the challenge of a public safety realignment when they state makes these actions. i want to thank the chief because from the start, he has worked with me to make sure that our police department was acting accordingly and making sure that it would bring its financial house in order.

so from the beginning, he has already cut off more than $1 million in their financing with actions made at the management level. i'm sure that with his leadership and the leadership that it represents to our fire department and our nurses, that we are optimistic and appreciative that the additional task of more than $20 million is anticipated, and we want to thank them for that great sacrifice -- the police, fire, and nurses -- for considering our proposal in helping to balance the budget and keep our city safe. [applause] while our public safety departments consider the request, we acknowledge that it is a great sacrifice that is being made, especially in light

of the fact that for two years in a row, that task has been made over and over again. we understand how great a sacrifice it is. at the same time, when we define, as zack treated, the safety also means that we keep a very critical level of social services in tact, we know that what out that degree of social services in place, the officers on the street would have a higher job -- as zachary did. we went about making sure that our social safety net was an attack, by meeting weekly with our community-based organizations. with that, we read prioritized funding to support meals for our seniors, our residential mental health and substance abuse programs, and domestic violence prevention programs.

some $13 million was shifted as a result of these meetings to make sure that we kept our city say it was critical core services. [applause] in addition to that, i want to especially thank the directors of our public health department and human services agency because without their effort, we also would not have found some $39 million in new federal dollars to expand our capacity for our health care system in preparation for the president's health care changes that are forthcoming, and an additional $16 million in state and federal revenue for basic safety net programs like food stamps, foster care, adoption and aplomb of programs for low-income adults and families. this will keep our city safe.

[applause] as we went about figuring out how to make sure our city was solvent, we spent some time making sure that everybody understood this was no longer a budget for one year, that we are starting to plan with five-year financial planning. even as we know that our economy may be recovering, we understood that costs were going -- growing faster than revenues, and that is why we set about looking at our financial planning for five years. to address this, we have asked for shared sacrifices, and that is why you heard earlier a few weeks ago that we introduced our pension reform. that is the critical part of our solvency in this city. i want to take again this

opportunity to thank the leaders in our city because you have shown us again and again how we can work as a city to build consensus, to collaborate, and to make sure those pension costs are kept within our means. thank you, again, labor, for being such a great partner in working with us. [applause] we also wanted to pay attention to our revenue side, to make sure that our house was solvent. so we are introducing today, as we have discussed in earlier weeks, a sales tax that will help us recover from whatever the state of california cannot accomplish. so i will entitle this to be a recovery sales tax. as all of you know, governor brown is attempting to extend the sales tax to make sure that

the programs in the state can continue to be funded. we would like to introduce a local sales tax as an insurance and only as an insurance to make sure that if governor brown and the state of california is not able to extend that tax, either with its failure to be introduced or the failure of the election in november, that we will offer not an additional tax, not a new tax, but a tax to recover one half cent of the 1 cent a stabilization. on july 1, should the sales tax drop from 9.5% to 8.5%, and should the state be unable to extend that tax, our sales tax

would ask the public by 2/3 vote to bring an approval for a local half-cent sales tax. during the sales tax to 9%. it would only take effect if the sales reduction fails to go through or does go through and the state tax is unable to be extended. this is a safety valve. it is one that will protect the core city services against the uncertainty in sacramento, and it is a smart way of doing it because we cannot sit idly by and watch what sacramento is unable or fails to do. we will not be at their win. we have to protect our own services. -- we will not be at their whim. [applause] still, even with this half-cent sales-tax extension, we will still keep a healthy level of

reserves, reserves that total $67.6 million, representing general fund reserves, general state reserves, our children's fund, and our rainy day fund that we continue to support our school district with. that will keep our city solvent. finally, we cast ourselves with what lorenzo talked about earlier -- how to continue making the city successful. i want you to know that we understand that our city is no longer a stagnant city. it is a growing city, a city that's population is growing. companies want to come here. they want to employ our residents. they want to help us grow. so we have focused on what we can do to sustain those jobs and make sure our city is successful.

we have our america's cup that is slated to occur here in 2013. what a wonderful opportunity to continue to make that event grow. it is no longer a national event. it is an international event and reminds us how much we are as an international city. we continue to embrace our local hire program. thanks to the before your supervisors, i am working extremely hard to make sure it is not just construction, but we have a spirit of local hire in every company that here. we have apprenticeships programs reflected in our budget that will allow our department of public works, our recreation and parks department, our environmental department to work together to make sure that we hire as many people as possible to fill our apprenticeship programs as we get ready for a resurgence in the building of san francisco. i pledge to continue working with the supervisors on the

neighbor heard commercial quarter program because through all of the means -- the neighborhood commercial corridor program because the of the means we have, our neighborhood corridors are as important as our downtown corridors. we are again reminded with the successful level of tourism we have in the city and with the recent international powwow that our own san francisco travel agency and visitors convention bureau sponsors successfully, we will continue partnering with our local hotels to make sure that our best foot star forward whenever the tourists are here because they continue to be our number one revenue-generating source of income -- that our best foot is forward. we want to continue to make sure that we continue reminding everybody that as this budget reflects a successful city, our success also is reflected in our international stature, that we continue to welcome all who want to come, whether they want to live here, whether they want to work here, and whether they want

to be part of a successful city. we are an international city. with that, we will continue investing in our capital program. this budget reflects over $308 million in capital investment, primarily in our enterprise departments. we also will introduce with the board's corp., a $248 million investment in our streets. we are finally getting into our streets, and we are sure this time around with the leadership of our board of supervisors in cooperation with our citizenry, that we will get the streets repaved. [applause] this submission of the budget is not an end at all. we work really hard with our budget office, with members of the staff's of each of the board of supervisors, with the staffs

of the apartments, and most importantly, with our community and community-based organizations. this is not an end of the process. as a beginning. we had hoped that this would signal a new way of doing things, a more enlightened way to present our budget and to work at the front end to resolve problems and not at the back end. i want to recognize supervisor carmen chu for being with me at so many of the budget meetings and making sure we get an early start, and i look forward to working with supervisor chu on her leadership at the board and with each and every member of the board of supervisors as we go forward this month. i also want to recognize the budget office. i will rename them because they have been very important players in our office. [reading names]

[applause] certainly, from members of my own office, i want to thank my staff for their excellent work and cooperation. from the controller's office, thank you very much. [applause] and i do want to thank mr. harvey rose in advance. [laughter] because i know that our cooperation will be integral to continuing the good cooperation we have had with the board of

supervisors, and to make sure we make adjustments accordingly and to make sure we have a continued effort to have a balanced budget. thank you for your continued cooperation. [applause] i want to thank the great parents of our kids. as we look forward to making sure that our budget is not only balanced but continues to reflect the values of the city, the futures of the city. i have enjoyed working with you on this budget, and as we have met individually, we have the future of the city our hands, and i will continue enjoying working with you to make sure that that future is bright, that we have a great foundation for this, and that we keep the city family type. to all the apartments, thank you again for working with me. to all of the elected officials for all of your support, and to the audience and members of the

public, i never grew tired of all these budget town hall meetings as i got to listen to the care and the interest, to the passion that people have for their neighborhoods. thank you very much for working together with me. this is the introduction of our budget, and i thank everyone for their cooperation. thank you. [applause]

>> is housed in a spectacular building described by the world renowned architect. it is the san francisco destination for provocative expositions and programs that explore culture, history, art, and ideas. the director of cultural affairs told us more about the mission and to give us a tour of the latest exposition. ♪

>> today we find ourselves of the contemporary jewish museum. with me is the director of the museum. >> i am so happy you are here today. >> we're getting close to a milestone for the museum. it is your third anniversary coming up. >> it is. you were here to help cut the ribbon. it has been an extraordinary journey ever since. we welcome hundreds of thousands of people into the building. we welcome school groups, interests -- tourists. >> the addition of the museum to the cultural pantheons of san francisco has been phenomenon. you have fabulous exhibits. there is one i want to talk about, "seeing gertrude stein."

>> gertrude stein is a local woman. she was raised in oakland. she was an extraordinary individual who helped create -- many people call for the mother of modernism. years ago, i was introduced to someone doing research on her. i thought it would be an extraordinary exposition to take her and understand her at all for complexity. that is what we have on view during the summer of 2011. >> it is full of wonderful drawings, paintings, and sculpture. >> there is incredible art on view. we have photographs. we have sculpture. we have a lot of different things. we have a little something made for her by picasso.

there are five different ways of looking at her life. it is not in chronological installation. it is looking at how she is portrayed in help artists, painters, and photographers presented her and how she thought about her own style and presentation. many people think she always had short hair. it was not until she was 52 that she cut off all of her hair. the second element is called "domestic stein." alice b. toklas was her lifelong partner. they had several different homes. we know about their home in paris, the famous salon. you get a taste of what their domestic life was like. >> one thing recreated is the fabulous wallpaper. the black-and-white photos do not convey the color.

>> in doing a lot of research, you discover a little tidbits. with an exhibition, at the find ways to make it come together. we found beautiful photographs of the interior of their home. then we found a tiny scrap of the wallpaper. we saw how blue and vibrant it was. we had a designer recreate the image of the wallpaper. we had it made into wallpaper so we could all experience what it would have been like to be in their home. it is dynamic and fantastic. they seem very monochromatic because you only know them through black-and-white photographs, but they had such a vibrant life. that is what the exhibition is also trying to show. the third one is the art of friendship. picasso and matisse were part of

their second family. there were people she admired and worked with. we introduced the visitors to her second family in a sense. the fourth story is called celebrity stein. what a lot of people do not know is when she left united states in the early 1900's, she only came back once in 1934. we also have a section of every single first edition book she ever published. >> it is incredible to see all the first edition books. >> it is really impressive to realize not only was she a grand dame of paris, but she had an incredible writing practice. she was a prolific writer. the fifth level really looks at

her legacy and how artists continue to be inspired by her image, work, and concept. >> this is a compelling reason for people to visit the jewish museum. you also have life and theater. >> we are a non-collecting museum. any time you walk in the building, you will always be treated to a range of very different and wonderful exhibitions. in our first floor exhibition space, we have an exhibition on the work of charlotte sullivan. she was a young artist in berlin. the nazis came into power. her parents sent her to the south of france to live with her grandparents. she put herself in a room for about 18 months and created 1200 small paintings telling her life story through a kind of reflection. it is another example of the way

we try to bring a wide range of art and experiences to our public. we want them to find something meaningful to them. >> your institution has been in this neighborhood for three years. how do you like the neighborhood? >> this is the best neighborhood. we are the luckiest city in the world to have this kind of cultural district, to have so many museums and cultural institutions. the center of our tourist life is here because this is where the convention center is. people from near and far can be introduced to the richness of the bay area. it is so wonderful and unique. >> the city thanks you for providing such wonderful leadership and vision. >> we're so happy to be part of the city and so honored to be the city and so honored to be part of "culture wire